Plate Tectonics Review

Which scientist proposed the continental drift hypothesis in 1911?

• Richter

• Hess

• Wegener

• Tharp

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What is indicated by the discovery of coal on land that is in a cold climate?

• Coal can form under many conditions

• The land the coal is on is hotter than most continents

• Coal formed under different conditions in the past

• The land the coal is on has moved

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were all joined together and slowly drifted apart.

• There used to be more continents than there are today, but some are now underwater

• The continents were once much farther apart and have since been moving together

• Continents move by floating on water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Select all possible answers:

Which of the following are pieces of evidence that Wegener used to support his idea?

• bird flight patterns

• rocks

• glaciers

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The hypothesis of continental drift was ignored until new evidence was found that pointed to a mechanism.

(a)  

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Why did most scientists dismiss Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift?

• Wegener was a meteorologist and everyone knows the weatherman is always wrong

• They thought the continents would not be deformed

• Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents

• Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

In (a)   , Wegener published a book called The Origin of Continents and Oceans.

• 1915
• 1930
• 1941
• 2000

The hypothesis that Pangaea was a supercontinent that broke apart causing the continents to move into their current locations is known as continental ______.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

________ is the name of the supercontinent which Wegener believe existed about 300 million years ago.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Crystals that point in the direction of the magnetic north pole are made of: 

• Peridotite

• Magnetite

• Granite

• Hematite

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3